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In the rare case of an athlete choosing
comfort and security over getting the most money possible,
Sami Salo signed a 4-year, $14million contract extension with the Vancouver Canucks yesterday. Despite Salo's injury problems over the years, he could ...
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It's been awhile since we had one of
those meme fads make its way around the hockey
blogosphere, so I'm up at 7:30AM on a Sunday morning and got nothing better to do. If I Were a Hockey Player: Team : Vancouver Canucks (gotta be the hometown) Uniform...
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by Jes Well, I finally put together the
little predictions spreadsheet that I do every year, comparing
my picks with Greg's, Mirtle's, and other mainstream writers and publications. Just to brag a little, I tend to kick the MSM's ass quite ...
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by Jes If you thought the New Jersey
Devils holding a Stanley Cup 'parade party' in a
parking lot was bad, check out what the Ducks are doing. There won't be a Stanley Cup parade in Anaheim, although it won't be because of traffic issues. Instead, ...
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Some guys do strange things with the Stanley
Cup ... Dustin Penner? He decided to take it
for an MRI. After a good hour's drive from Winnipeg, Uncle Dale pulled up in front of the Boundary Trails Health Centre, where Dustin's Mom, Linda, is a ...
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by Jes Some big news in the world
of broadcasting this week as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(CBC) extended their deal to host Hockey Night in Canada on Saturdays. From the Mother Ship: The CBC and the NHL announced a new television deal ...
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Some people like extreme skiing, cocaine, or cliff
jumping. For my adrenaline rush, I'll take NHL playoff
hockey for $400, Alex. Canucks 4 - Stars 1 ... Canucks finally got some Power Play tallies, showed hunger in the final two periods, and ...
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Jan Bulis : Penalty Killer Extraordinaire, Master of
the Hip-Check, Pavol Demitra wanna-be. Bulis doesn't get a
whole lot of love and respect from Canucks' fan and media, because these people just don't know the REAL Jan Bulis. Things about Jan ...
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by Jes You'd think I'd learn from the
example of a particular blogger and not make stupid
bets. Well, I got brave and made a bet with Earl Sleek, aka "Patrick Swayze's #1 Fan" , and lost ... no thanks to the stupid Canucks Power Play. So, here is ...
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We're used to non-hockey mediots taking potshots at
the great sport of hockey. ( Remember THIS ESPN
Cartoon?) It's like a bee sting, really. We can handle one or two of these jabs, but after about 1,000, it really gets annoying. So, I decided to go on ...
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by Jes Let's have a show of hands
here. How many of you think that the NHL
ought to expand to 32 teams? Wow, nobody... except the idiots at the NHL's Front Offices ... Even when the NHL swore that expansion was off the table, no one was buying it. ...
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by Jes With the NHL Salary Cap hitting
an amazing $50mil+ for the next season, people are
wondering how the figure got so high, especially considering the much-more-popular NBA has a cap of just $56mil. Well, the answer lies in the stronger Canadian ...
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Yes, he wore his hockey sweater to the
county jail It looks like another NHLer is in
trouble with the law. Who? Eric Staal, one of the 'golden boys' of the NHL and EA Cover d00d. Carolina Hurricanes center Eric Staal was one of 14 people ...
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by Greg Alanah at Canucks and Beyond has
a great little concept here -- which hockey players
would make the best drinking partners? In the comments, she urged me to do the same (um, a while back -- we don't move too quickly down here in the South), ...
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by Jes Over a decade ago, 1995 to
be exact, Magic: The Gathering , was an uber-popular
CCG (Collectable Card Game) among my teenage schoolmates and I. Just like nowadays with Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, kids spent most of their pocket money on these ...
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by Greg After the off-season arrivals of Ryan
Smyth and Scott Hannan, and departures of Pierre Turgeon
and Patrice Brisebois, there's a renewed sense of optimism in Avalanche-land. It's morning in America, to coin a phrase. They missed the playoffs ...
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by Jes The Anaheim Ducks, defending cup champs,
have opened up the new season in a horrible
slump. Slumps are typical for clubs over the course of the year, but it is odd to see the likes of the Blue Jackets doing well while the Anaheim Ducks are ...
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by Jes Ahh, Hallowe'en, the time for children
to get stuffed with fattening treats, shoot fireworks at
each other, and dress up in costume. For the adults, it's not that much different, other than revolvers replacing fireworks, most of the time. ...
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by Jes Jim Kelley , as Dominik Hasek
will tell you, is one of those pasty, overweight
sports writers that likes to think himself as above the NHL players that provide him with the means to make a living. You know, the 'nerd' who likes to chop down ...
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Canucks Sign Sami Salo to an Extension